Growing up
ChibiRebel
A.N. This is my first bleach fanfiction. Characters might act OOC, I'll try to keep them in character as much as I can. Also, the timeline has gone to hell, but I would like it to take place after everything like Aizen, Ichimaru and Tousen's betrayal and Hinamori's coma, when everything is peaceful and calm. In this perfect Soul Society, Aizen is DEAD! I don't care what happens to Ichimaru and Tousen though. Also I got the idea for this fanfic from a short drabble titled maturity.
Summary: Maturity often comes with a torrent of new emotions.
Pairings: Hitsugaya x Hinamori
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own BLEACH, you already know that.
Chapter 1: Questions that need to be answered
Hitsugaya sighed, "About damn time." He ran his hands through his spiky white hair. It was finally happening...puberty. It had been decades since he died and he was finally hitting puberty, at the age of 150 something for that matter. 'About damn time' was right.
He looked at himself in the mirror, he didn't look that different anyway. He had grown, that he knew. He could now look at his baka vice captain without looking at her chest. He could look at her neck, which was far more better. He had outgrown his captain cloak and they refused to make him a new one until he was finished maturing. Hitsugaya stared at his hands, they had grown bigger, there was also the fact that he had larger muscles now. He also had newfound strength and agility. Hitsugaya groaned at the sound of his voice. It began cracking and sometimes he had the tendency to sing soprano, which was absolutely hilarious to his vice captain.
Then there were those thoughts. Yes, those thoughts that happened to randomly appear in his head whenever he thought about or saw Hinamori. They made him red as a tomato and they made his body do things too. Which was somewhat horribly embarrassing for him. Sometimes when he and Hinamori would eat lunch, those thoughts would appear again, making him go red. Hinamori would often ask if he sick or not.
That was a total downside to growing up.
He wondered why he would think about her like that now, he never thought about her before in that manner. This was new. But he would just have to live with it, for now at least.
Hinamori cocked her head to the side as she stared at her figure in the mirror, "I'm growing up..." Hinamori herself was finally going through puberty. She was older than Hitsugaya, but for some reason she started later. She poked her chest a couple of times and sighed. Her Shinigami gi was getting tighter, not around the waist area but around the chest area. She sighed to herself. Sometimes she wondered if she would end up like Rangiku.
Hinamori shivered at the thought. Suddenly her mind turned to Hitsugaya, he was growing up too. She noticed how his face was beginning to lose its childish features and was slowly being replaced with more chiseled skin. The thought made her blush. There was also his body...
STOP!
'Hinamori Momo! You will not think of Hitsugaya like that! He is a captain for heaven's sake!' Hinamori scolded herself for the umpteenth time.
But she couldn't stop herself from going there again.
"Oh kami-sama..." Hinamori pressed her forehead against the mirror, "What's happening to me?" Maybe she should ask Rangiku, she did seem adept in these kind of things.
Knock knock
Rangiku lifted her face up from her book and said, "Come in!" Rangiku didn't exactly know who it was but she didn't exactly care.
Hinamori timidly opened the door and stepped in. Rangiku was surprised by this, Hinamori had never directly come into her room before.
"Hinamori-chan! This is quite a surprise!" Rangiku put down her book and motioned to the girl to sit next to her.
Hinamori nodded and sat down slowly.
"So what brings you here?" Rangiku asked noticing that Hinamori had a blush on her face.
"I need to ask you something," Hinamori whispered her face becoming redder.
"Hai?" Rangiku had an idea about what the question was going to be about, judging from the blush on the younger girl's face.
"Promise not to laugh okay?"
"Promise." Rangiku's voice was full of amusement and curiosity.
"Okay, Rangiku-chan, I've been having these strange thoughts about Hitsugaya-kun, they've been plaguing me ever since I began to go through puberty. I'm not really sure what they mean and I was wondering if you could help me. " Hinamori said in one breath more or less.
Rangiku's mouth was completely open, she couldn't believe it. Hinamori was having dirty thoughts about taichou. She couldn't help but chuckle, "What kind of thoughts were they, were they by any chance, dirty?"
Hinamori looked down at the ground and blushed.
"I suppose they were."
"You could say that...but what I don't understand is why I've been getting these thoughts so recently. I've never had those kind of ideas about Hitsugaya-kun before! Why now?" Hinamori questioned.
Rangiku waved her hand dismissively and grinned, "It's all a part of growing up. It's natural to have those thoughts about taichou, he is a boy after all."
Hinamori nodded shyly.
Rangiku couldn't help but smirk, taichou had come to her a week ago asking her the same thing. She looked back at the conversation.
"Why? Why do I get these thoughts when I'm around Hinamori?" Hitsugaya covered his face with one hand while the other was grinding into the floor.
Rangiku raised an eyebrow at Hitsugaya, "What kind of thoughts taichou?"
Hitsugaya took his hand off of his face and sighed, "Uh-whenever I'm around her...before I can stop myself I start thinking about Hinamori and how she would look-bare, among other things..." Hitsugaya said reluctantly.
Rangiku couldn't believe it, did Hitsugaya just say he was fantasizing about Hinamori-chan? "Did you just say you imagine Hinamori nak-"
"Bare, just say bare." Hitsugaya gave Rangiku a cold look.
"-bare," Rangiku smirked at her captain. 'my little captain is finally growing up.'
"I don't understand it!"
"You're not supposed to," Rangiku replied.
"That's idiotic then," Hitsugaya retorted.
"You may be right."
Rangiku glanced at Hinamori and noticed that her shinigami gi was getting tighter, kind of like hers.
"Your gi, you may need a bigger one," Rangiku said pointing to Hinamori's gi.
Hinamori blushed and covered herself fervently.
"Aa, don't worry about it!" Rangiku reassured, "It's a good thing, don't cover yourself up!"
"Rangiku-chan?" Hinamori asked, "May I ask you one more thing?"
"Go for it," Rangiku said as she poured some water into a cup and began drinking it.
"Will I be like you?" at the questioned Rangiku spit all her water out.
"E-excuse me?" Rangiku inquired her eyes wide.
"I said, will I be like you, in terms of my chest," Hinamori repeated adding in some detail.
Rangiku's eyes were still wide, she looked to the side, "I-I can't give you a direct answer, but I don't think you'll be like me."
"Oh alright!" Hinamori smiled and hugged Rangiku, "Thanks for your time Rangiku-chan, I must go now!" With that Hinamori stood up and walked out the door shutting it behind her.
Meanwhile Rangiku still was shocked over Hinamori's question, "Judging by the way she's growing she might be like me..." she pondered on it for a moment then shook her head, "Nahhhh."
"Aa, Hitsugaya-taichou, what brings you to the fourth division?" Unohana asked as she welcomed the young captain in.
"I need to ask you something, Unohana-taichou," Hitsugaya said as he pulled out a chair and sat in it.
"Ask away," Unohana smiled.
"I need to know if I'm sick or not."
"Hmm? Well you don't look sick to me, why do you ask?"
"Because I think I'm sick, something is desperately wrong with me," Hitsugaya shook his head.
"What's wrong with you?" Unohana questioned, a concerned look crossing her face.
"I'm not sure, but could you check to see if I'm sick or not."
"Well, alright then," Unohana smiled again, just as she was about to speak another voice interrupted her.
"Unohana-taichou are you-"
Hinamori was still curious, even after that talk with Rangiku. She still wanted to know. Hinamori thought of asking some other people like Kira but she decided against it. Who would know best about puberty. Unohana-taichou that's who.
Hinamori reached the fourth division quarters and met up with Isane-fuku taichou.
"Hinamori- fuku taichou," The gentle vice captain said as he bowed down to Hinamori. Hinamori bowed back and smiled.
"Isane-kun have you seen Unohana-taichou, I need to speak with her," Hinamori said.
"Aa, yes I have, she is in her office at this moment, would you like me to direct you to it?" Isane offered.
"I would like that," Hinamori bowed to show her thanks. Isane directed Hinamori in the general direction of the office.
When Hinamori reached the office she didn't hear the voices through the door so she just opened it.
"Unohana-taichou are you-" Hinamori cut herself off, noticing Hitsugaya.
"Aa, Hinamori-chan," Unohana smiled at the young girl and waved to her, "What would you like?"
Hinamori stared at Hitsugaya then at Unohana. 'I should have knocked.' Hinamori also noticed that Hitsugaya was staring intensely at her, this made her blush.
"Gomen nasai," Hinamori bowed down, "I didn't know you were busy."
Unohana waved her hand dismissively and smiled, "Oh, I'm not busy." Unohana then feigned a thoughtful look, "Hmm. Now that you mention it I just remembered I have quite a bit of paperwork that I must file. I'm truly sorry, but could you please come by my office sometime later? Both of you?"
Hinamori and Hitsugaya nodded.
-TBC-
A.N. Kind of long. Maybe I should boot this up to M. If you must flame then do it, but be easy...please. Anyway R&R.